Chief Technical Officer

The Role

Reporting to the CEO, the CTO provides organization-wide technical competencies and leadership developing a shared vision for how community health systems can deliver at scale, at quality, and sustainably.

The CTO provides executive oversight to the following technical functions: Health Systems Strengthening team (comprised of clinical excellence, health financing, health policy, education, and digital health workstreams), and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning.

The CTO will fill a new position on LMH’s Executive Team during the final stages of development of the organization’s next strategic cycle.

A successful start in this role could include:

• Designing and deploying an integrated digital health strategy – from device management, digital learning, community health systems, and data management and analysis
• Leveraging financing for public health strategies where LMH work and the advocacy techniques needed to make them happen
• Developing a long-term learning agenda to define a set of questions to guide evaluation and evidence-generating priorities to generate knowledge and support decision-making and evidence of impact on population health outcomes
• Assessing external resources and partnerships needed to make these strategies come to life

What You’ll Bring

• An advanced degree (MD, MBChB, RN, MPH, or equivalent)
• 15+ years of public health experience, with deep knowledge of public sector integrated health systems
• Significant vertical expertise in a technology domain, such as digital health, data systems, etc
• Familiarity with health financing and health policy
• Demonstrated experience in the design and implementation of M&E for public health
• Rich experience in the design, development, implementation, and measurement of innovative health systems
• Demonstrated experience supporting new business development efforts, including competitive submissions in response to RFAs from bilateral and multilateral organizations (e.g., USAID, Global Fund, DFID)
• Experience managing cross-functional teams to deliver required inputs/ outputs
• Extensive experience designing and leading public health programs in sub-Saharan Africa

You’ll Impress Us If

• You have demonstrated experience contributing to the design and/or implementation of health financing strategy and health policy
• You have research experience within the public health domain
• You have experience managing cooperative agreements from bilateral and multilateral funding agencies